What's This? Over the past few years, I've run a lot of adventure modules, both online and in person. I've given them all some thought, and in 2024 I decide...
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Today we are facing some unprecedented wildfire smoke and it's been unpleasantly hot for a couple of weeks straight, so it's a perfect time to write up my thoughts about another desert adventure! I'll be talking about Drought Dragon Desolation by Liam Pádraig Ó Cuilleanáin. If the author's name sounds familiar, that's because I just recently reviewed one of his other adventures fairly recently--…
I'm back for another sporadic review! As I've mentioned before, I'm running fewer one-shots and short games this year, so these reviews will be for medium to long campaigns. This time I revisited Mörk Borg, which has long held a special place in my heart, and we delved into Tephrotic Nightmares , by Luke Gearing. This campaign-style sandbox adventure was released through Exalted Funeral, and it…
Recently I had an opportunity to run a game for a group of people who were almost 100% new to Cairn (one person had played Mausritter before), and I felt that this would be a perfect time to try out one of the adventures that came with the Cairn 2e boxed set-- "Bloodmarm Barrow" by Brad Kerr. Having run one of Brad's previous adventures for Cairn , I knew that I should expect some weirdness and…
Time for another entry into the beloved-by-me "town with problems and lots of interesting stuff to discover nearby" style of adventure which I have written about previously . This time I will be reviewing The Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh by Liam Pádraig Ó Cuilleanáin. This adventure exists in two versions-- the original, known simply as The Hounds of Hendenburgh was written for Cairn and is…
Over the past few years I've been running quite a bit of Cairn, especially with the release of the game's second edition , and while I've pretty much lost track of most of the third-party adventures, I've definitely been enjoying the piecemeal release of the "Cairn Adventure Series", which this review will return to. I've previously reviewed the second entry in the series, but the first one was…
Announcing the release of the first illustrated adventure for Glowburn & Radscars! Feature Presentation is now available for download. Venture into the irradiated wilderness and discover the secrets hidden at a drive-in theater of the ancients!
Convention season is coming up for me, so the next adventure that I'm going to talk about is one that I think is absolutely perfect for a convention game! Here is The Perilous Path of the Cursed Camel , by Joseph R. Lewis, with art by Oleg Khachkovskiy and Joe himself. The adventure is written for three systems simultaneously (Shadowdark, Old School Essentials, and Cairn) with a pretty clever…
Maybe it's the fact that I just had to spend an hour hacking a space in the frozen mound left by the snow plows on my sidewalk to fit my garbage bins, but I feel like talking about a winter-themed adventure at this time of year. My next review is going to be Corpse Trail to Hell , written by Karl Druid for his weird western game Frontier Scum . I ran it using the intended system. The premise of…
Alright, I think I can squeak in one more review this year, increasing my 2025 output by 33%... anyway, let's talk about Where The Sun Dies , an adventure for Vaesen , part of the "Lost Mountain Saga" campaign book. The lead writer of the book was Ellinor DiLorenzo with editing and additional writing by Tomas Härenstam and Kiku Pukk Härenstam. Illustrations are by Johan Egerkrans and Anton Vitus.…
Hello again, folks! Time for another sporadic review of something that I've run. This time I will be writing about Witches of Frostwyck , a wintry and folk-lorey adventure written by Joseph R. Lewis. But first, a little digression. There were two main reasons that I stopped making this blog a weekly thing; first, I no longer have such a huge backlog of adventures to review, because I've already…
